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It seems our taste buds aren’t satisfied unless we shake salt on our food or find it in a bag of salty chips, but salt can cause issues with blood pressure. If your blood pressure is too high, your arteries can harden and narrow, resulting in a greater chance of heart disease. Dr. Koshy doesn’t add salt to any food or when she cooks. She doesn’t even have a salt shaker on the table. “It doesn’t matter what kind of salt it is—Himalayan sea salt or pink salt—if it has salt in its name, it is no good,” she says. If you’re struggling with high blood pressure, limit your salt intake and introduce your salt-craving taste buds to spices like cumin, curry, garlic, rosemary, cinnamon, etc. The results could be significant in lowering high blood pressure. Here are some more things doctors might not tell you about healthy blood pressure. “Usually, if people with high blood pressure remove salt from their diet, their blood pressure will drop enough that they don’t need medication,” says Koshy.